Democrats are using and promoting third party candidates, sometimes candidates who appear conservative, to trick voters and defeat Republicans in House races.
The trickery includes recruiting third party candidates, promoting the candidates with ad spending, and encouraging outside groups to do the same.
Voter Protection Project, which is aligned with Democrats, is spending money to promote third party candidates to siphon off votes from Republicans or attack Republicans from the right on certain issues such as border security.
Voter Protection Project's spending is geared towards running against Rep. David Valadao, promoting a third party candidate against Republican challenger Joe Teirab in Minnesota, and promoting a third party candidate to Republican challenger Derek Merrin in Ohio.
Another shadowy Democrat-aligned group, Patriots Run, recruited candidates to run against Republicans in Iowa, Nebraska, Montana, Virginia, and Minnesota, according to the Associated Press: For the past year, the group has recruited Trump supporters to run as independent candidates in key swing districts where they could siphon votes from Republicans in races that will help determine which party controls the House next year, an Associated Press review has found.
In addition to two races in Iowa, the group recruited candidates in Nebraska, Montana, Virginia and Minnesota.
If no candidate gets more than 50 percent in the general election, the race proceeds to ranked-choice voting.
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